[Foundation-l] [Internal-l] Relocation Announcement

[Delirium]

Gregory Maxwell wrote:
> On 9/25/07, Delirium <delirium at hackish.org> wrote:
>   
>> If
>> transatlantic distances were the main factor, the BBC ought to be
>> perceptibly slow (it isn't, it loads nearly instantly), while Wikipedia
>> ought to be fast (it isn't, it takes time before it even starts serving
>> me pages, especially on large pages).
>>     
>
> Log out then clear any en.wikipedia.org cookies. Or try a wp you don't
> log into like German. Who knows what cache killing user preferences or
> scripts you have set...
>
> For readers Wikipedia is usually quite quick. It doesn't have the help
> of an Akamai server 4ms away from you, but a typical random wikipedia
> page will make only 4 or 5 http requests vs 49 for the BBC home page
>   

But since the whole *point* of Wikipedia is a project to produce a free 
encyclopedia, what exactly is the purpose of comparing its speed after 
I'm logged out? If the goal is just to serve up read-only copies 
quickly, any mirror can do that.

-Mark